Re: Where do I submit Windows XP bugs?

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Then you're stuck moving to Windows Vista and reporting bugs against that version, not against the older Windows XP. Behaviors won't get changed unless they can be regressed to Windows XP from those implemented for Windows Vista. About the only "reports" that might get worked on is if you submit critical security issues but then you'd need to have the expertise of someone like Secunia and the level of expertise typical of those users that report there to notify Microsoft of security problems (which often don't get resolved for many months, if even acknowledged by Microsoft). End users rarely have that level of OS expertise to produce reports that can be of any value in solving those type of issues.

The example "bug" you mention regarding behavior will not result in any effort or resources expended by Microsoft to alter that behavior in Windows XP - unless, of course, you are a very large corporation buying thousands of licenses along with buying LOTS of support so you get heard by their developers who would have be reassigned to old code.

You're pretty much stuck with the behaviors that Windows XP now exhibits.


"Silvercode" wrote ...
Oh, I would have started with some tiny bug and see if they can fix even that.

For example if I move the toolbar to left of the screen and a browser partly
covers it, then I click on the toolbar to bring it to top, and then if I
hover mouse pointer over a quick button on the toolbar the tooltip soon goes
under the toolbar. The bug occurs on around five first tooltips until I click
on the browser and click on the toolbar again.

What I don't like in Windows is that there are some small annoyances. It
would be better to fix those instead of creating a new even more bloated
operating system that might have tons of new bugs and annoyances. I mean,
things should get better over time, right?

"Gerry" wrote:

What bug might that be?

Silvercode wrote:
> Where do I submit Windows XP bugs?


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